Hi I am fairly a newbie and do not have much knowledge of Linux but have googled and tried solving my problem but have not got a solution.

I have a bought a Netgear Wireless N-150 router WGR614v10. I am using my net connection via PPPoE on a Win 7 machine and the connection was flawless the MAC address on the router is of the Win 7 machine.

My problem is that I have an old machine PIII 600Mhz 398MB SD Ram on VectorLinux 6.0....I tried connecting the internet directly with PPPoE the connection worked fine and I could connect through the net...but now after installing the router the machine is not detected by the router... only my Win 7 machine and my android phone is shown in attached devices and the VectorLinux machine is not shown....Have tried various permutations after googling but have not come up with any solution.

Yes I am using the router to dial the PPPoE connection .... gets connected .....in router settings the Vector Linux machine cannot be detected ....is it a router problem or I have to do some settings with DHCP in the Vector Linux machine or the Win 7 machine...

Tried Vasm as suggested by Bigpaws....sitll not detecting....no network no net on the Linux machine.....

Step by step if possible will be helpful.....or any place where I can research more about the problem....

An important question to get an answer for is:Is your router set up as a DHCP server (i.e. it assigns IP addresses) or not (i.e. you manually assign an IP address)?

The easiest way to answer this is, in Windows, do you have to specify your IP address in your Network Places or doesit just automatically get assigned? If it's automatically assigned then your router acts as a DHCP server. If you manuallyassign an IP address in Windows then you have static IP addresses.

Looks like your hardware is present and detected properly by VectorLinux:

We just need to get an IP address assigned to the device (that's acceptable to your router) in order for the networkconnection to start working. This will be more easily facilitated by the answer to my question above.

rebooted.....my local host add did'nt change it remained as 192.168.1.6.192.168.1.6got an error like this on the startup screen:

Could not look up internet address for 192.168.1.6.192.168.1.6This will prevent Xfce from operating correctly.It may be possible to correct the problem by adding192.168.1.6.192.168.1.6 to the file /etc/hosts on your system